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Summary of Content: Written as member of Congress to a neighbor at home. Adams mentions Franklin, Lynch and Harrison forming a committee to visit New England to investigate continuation of a united army.

Full Transcript: Philadelphia Octr. 3. 1775, Dr Sir, I have only Time to inclose you a News Paper, and to desire that when you have read it you would send it to Mrs Adams. - I am in great Pain, lest the next News I shall hear from my Family, may be melancholly: by my last Letters it was in great Distress:, Your old Friend Dr Franklin together with Mr Lynch and Coll Harrison, are a Comtie to treat with your Board, the General and the other New England Colonies with respect to Points of Importance for continuing the Army etc -, I hope these Gentlemen will be treated with every civility, and decent ceremony, that the circumstances of our country will admit. - I am, your Friend & huml servant, John Adams, [address leaf], The Hon., Joseph Palmer Esqr, , Favoured by, Mr Lynch., Watertown, , [docket], Hon: John. Adams Esqr., 1775.